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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 "Responses to al-Qaeda's Initial Assaults".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many total terrorists hijacked the planes on 9/11?
(a) 20.
(b) 19.
(c) 6.
(d) 12.

2. Who ordered the National Security Council to coordinate a response against the terrorist who bombed the World Trade Center's parking garage?
(a) President Ronald Reagan.
(b) President George H. W. Bush.
(c) President George W. Bush.
(d) President Bill Clinton.

3. From the end of WWII until the late 1960s, the FBI operated, in part, as a kind of ________ ________ service.
(a) International intelligence.
(b) Domestic dispute.
(c) Domestic intelligence.
(d) International dispute.

4. When did Bin Laden last warn of potential attacks against the U.S.?
(a) 1999.
(b) 2001.
(c) 1998.
(d) 2000.

5. How was the August 7, 1998, attack on American embassies at Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam destroyed?
(a) By gunmen.
(b) By WMD's.
(c) By hijacked aircraft.
(d) By truck bombs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Between 1996 and September 11, 2001, Afghanistan became a kind of international headquarters of __________.

2. Approximately what fraction of the hijackers set off the metal detectors or otherwise aroused the suspicion of airport security?

3. By 1997, the CIA's Bin Laden unit knew that al-Qaeda was planning attacks against __________ interests and was actively seeking nuclear materials.

4. Which Taliban leader promised the U.S. to expel Bin Laden?

5. When did a truck bomb explode in the parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York?

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